In a land that professes to be a place for “the free and the brave,” we have a society that is full of the “oppressed and the scared.”  We read in the Times Dispatch where several employees of Henrico County Public Schools spoke out about living and working in fear for their jobs.  They voiced how this fear drives them to silence, even when they know that they lives of children are in danger or that the welfare of a peer is compromised by those that are the “oppressors.”  

Why Henrico’s board and superintendent are sleeping at night, knowing that they are cultivating an atmosphere of fear that will not even stand up to save the life of a child is unknown to us.  They should be ashamed of themselves.  Only bullies and dictators rule through fear.

Our hearts go out to those employees in Henrico County Public Schools…